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' F, E..H'ELD.

Combination 0f Billiard and Dining Table.

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Letters Patent-N0. 100,401, dated M h'l, 1870.

COMBINATION OI BILLIARI? DINING-TABLES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and makingpafl: of the name To all delimit it may GOIICGI'IL Be it known "that I, Fnubnmo HELD, of Chicago,

in the county 9f Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain Improvements.infBilliard and Dining- "Table Combined, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings;

A My invention consists .in the novel.- construction and arrangement of an'adjus'table billiard-cushion and rail with a table, so that the table may be used we bil hard-table or for plained. p e

Figure 1 is a vertical cross-section of my table arranged for billiards, and v igure' t-hesame, arranged as a dining-table. l construct the body and bed of my table in any of the common and welhknown forms, allowing the bed' A to project slightly beyond or over the frame, as

shown. i

Around the bed A I place the rails B, connected i0- get-her at the corners so as't'o forin a continuous frame,

and'to 'their faces secure the cushions E, as in the common, table. i.

The inner edges of the cushions and rails and the outer edgeof' the bedI arrange in the same vertical plane, and to the lower inner edge of the rail secure bloeksor cleats, c, asshown in both figures.

The rails thus arranged may be raised to bring the cushions above the bed, and. then be secured by passing screws, D,-through the rail into the bd or body,

, dining pnrposesby' changing the position of-the cushions and rail, as hereinafter ex as shown in fig. 1, so as to answer as and in all re spects resemble an ordinary billiard-table. in

After removing the screws therails and cushions may be lowered flush with the bed, as shownjn fig. 2,

when the table will presenta smooth, unbroken surface, and maybe used for dining or other: purposes.

To the body-of the table I secure brackets, G, upon which the rail rests, and by which it is supported when lowered, as shown in fig. 2.

- The cleats or blocks 0 meta limit the raising of the rails,- and aid in adjusting the same when being con-.

verted for billiards, by striking against theunder side of the bed andstopping the rails at the proper height.

It is obvious that instead of removingthescreirs'at each conversion of the table, slots may be made in the rails, and thus render'it only necessary to loosen the screws to allow the rails to move.

- In this way I am able to provide a table that may be adjusted for playing billiards 'upon, or for any ordinary use, as'descn'bed.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim, is- I A billiard-table having its rail and cushion adjustable, as herein described, so that it may be converted into a table suitable for dining or other purposes, as

set forth.

' FRED. E. HELD.

Witnesses:

WM. H. Lo'rz, Fm); Fisonnnck. 

